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Austrian-born documentarian Ruth Beckermann does not subscribe to George Santayana’s oft-quoted adage, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” World events have proven that premise wrong, she asserts. And the idea that films can (or should) be educational vehicles for...

“One day at lunch, Orson turned to me out of the blue and said, ‘If anything ever happens to me, I want you to promise me you’ll finish the picture.’ I said, ‘Oh, Orson, nothing’s going to happen to you.’ He said, ‘I know, but if it does, promise me you’ll finish the picture.’ I said, ‘Of course I will, but it won’t.’ And we changed the subject.”

In 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?,' Melissa McCarthy drops her usual ingratiating comic shtick and transforms herself into the toughest, meanest lesbian who ever prowled and drank her way through the streets of Manhattan.

As a fairly new arrival in Manhattan and soon-to-be-dropout of my second college, I had but one ambition in life in 1977: to work in a disco. It was all tied up in my coming out gay and a love for dancing to the innovatively sexy, funky sound then being invented by the likes of Donna Summer,...

When police shoot an unarmed African-American man in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, three men of color respond in different ways. In Monsters and Men, director Reinaldo Marcus Green employs a triptych structure to detail the intimate and heart-stopping choices they’re forced to make...